As a brief summary, our group was inspired to pursue the project we did because we had interviewed professionals working in engineering fields. We thought that we could juxtapose what we had learned from these interviews with Berkeley undergraduate students pursuing research, which is very similar to the work environment of some engineers in the field today. We asked them some questions about their research and ethical challenges as well as how they would describe the atmosphere around ethical discussions with their PIs and fellow lab mates.
Reflection on it, I think it was a very good project idea. In complementing our interview project with this group project idea, I feel like we extended it, continuing the assignment that was given to us in class. It was certainly not the easiest to make the video, as our video editing skills were not the best, but hopefully the meat of the interviews, the opinions expressed by those we interviewed, would best the most important aspect. Just interviewing undergraduates was a good start, and by extension, questions raised about the practice of ethics in undergraduate research is likely to extend to graduate student research. Getting this information to the public will hopefully be a stepping stone for Berkeley faculty to prep young minds passionate for research to consider ethical challenges in their research and the ethical impacts just like they would have to in the real world.